[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough.

  • Smethwick (Worcestershire, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    T otal Not Genuine Article Analysed Samples Genuine Green Pea Soup Laxative Ghoeolate ... Stuffing ... . Beef and Ham Paste Cloves Brandy Flavour Spashurg Salts i^feat Paste Oxo Gurry Powder Verox Cubes ... Potato Powder Stomaeb Powder Anchovy Paste Salt Beef Extract ... Ground Ginger Pea Flour Glycerine, Lemon and Honey Forcemeat Stuffing ... Vanilla Barley Pudding Raspberrv Flavouring Es.senee Lemonade Crystals 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 231 189 42 PROSECFTION. FOOD AND DRUGS ADULTERATION ACT. 1936. During the yeai' a milk dealer was charged at the Law Courts witlx selling milk containing 12-6% and 10'3% of added water. The defendant was found guilty and fined £5 in each case with £3 18s. Od. costs. CHEiMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAiMINATlON OF FOOD. The Borough Analysts, iMessrs. Bostock, Hill and Rigby, of Birmingham, carry out chemical analyses of food, drugs, water, air, eic. Bacteriological examination of food, including examination of millc I'oi- methylene blue reduction test, bacterial count, ])hospliatase test, and the presence of B.Coli, as well as the biological examination of milk for the presence of 'iriibercle Bacilli are under!aken at the Department of Bacteriology, The Medical School. Hospitals Centre, Birmingham.